"Now, customers across these five cities can access high speed wireless broadband and get on to the digital superhighway for uninterrupted HD video streaming, superfast uploading and downloading of movies, music and images,"Venkatesh Vijayaraghavan, CEO-AP & Telangana of Bharti Airtel, said in a press release.

Chief Minister, N Chandrababu Naidu said the Government's vision is to transform the State into a digitally empowered society and knowledge economy. this is one more step.

Airtel launched India’s first 4G network in Kolkata in April 2012. In August 2015, it announced that its 4G services were available in 296 towns across India.

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After PSU banks, the government is likely to infuse capital in two chronically ill telecom PSUs BSNL and MTNL, and the Union Cabinet is likely to take a decision on 4G spectrum allocation to them by the third week of the current month after DoT places the note before it for consideration.

At a high-level meeting at the PMO late Tuesday, it was also decided that the two telcos will frame a Voluntary Retirement Scheme (VRS) to reduce their employee strength, which will be followed by a reduction in the retirement age to 58.